Arc Raiders playtest slams previous 185,000 concurrent gamers on Steam alone

The Arc Raiders server slam playtest kicked off at the moment, providing one final free weekend testing session earlier than the sport launches on October 30. And it is placing up critical numbers, with greater than 185,000 folks enjoying proper now—on Steam alone.

That quantity, courtesy of SteamDB, is nice sufficient to place Arc Raiders within the quantity 4 spot on Steam’s most performed checklist, forward of PUBG, Rust, and Bongo Cat. It is much more spectacular when you think about that the server slam can be out there on the Epic Video games Retailer in addition to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X/S consoles, that means the precise variety of folks enjoying is larger—possible a lot larger.

Regardless of the enviable crush of gamers, the take a look at appears to be going very nicely. Embark Studios pushed a hotfix shortly after the playtest began to handle crashes and errors, which sadly required a “full redownload” of the sport, however mentioned that “shouldn’t be the norm transferring ahead.”

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Since that patch, although, there’s been no indication of massive points: Two of our greatest males, Morgan Park and Lincoln Carpenter, are apparently spending their Friday, uhh, testing the sport, and say they have not run into any points. They’re additionally representing the model admirably.

I count on that concurrent participant variety of Steam will proceed to climb as North America slowly rolls into Friday night time, however Saturday is the place issues will actually get fascinating: The primary full day of the take a look at, with an terrible lot extra folks with free time on their palms more likely to soar in to see what it is all about. If Embark can maintain the lights on and wheels turning by that, then who is aware of? Possibly Arc Raiders would be the uncommon on-line recreation that truly would not get slammed into the bottom on launch day.